Background
Matskiv was born in Khodoriv, Lwów Voivodeship (now Lviv Oblast).
Matskiv was born in Khodoriv, Lwów Voivodeship (now Lviv Oblast).
She entered the Sister Servants of Mary Immaculate on 3 May 1938. She took her first vows on 5 November 1940, and worked in her convent. Even before the arrival of the Soviet Army to Lviv, she took vows before her spiritual director, French
On 17 July 1944 at around 8 a.m., a Russian soldier rang the convent door.
When Matskiv answered the door she was shot without warning and died. lieutenant was later said that she was shot simply "because she was a nun".
She was beatified by Pope John Paul II on June 27, 2001.